Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick is furious over comments his fellow Commissioner Dan Saltzman made to WW this week questioning whether the Portland Bureau of Transportation needs a new street maintenance fee.

Lies and money are flowing fast in the bitter war over Portland’s tap water. Here’s the unfiltered truth.

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Portland’s hidden treasure lies nearly 50 miles east of the city, ringed by Douglas fir and protected by gates and guards.
Bull Run Lake, a rain-fed oval nestled in the shadow of Mount Hood, suppl
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Rep. Shemia Fagan (D-East Portland) keeps finding money to help people walk safely at the eastern edge of the city.

Fagan and Rep. Jessica Vega Pederson (D-East Portland) announced this morning they have secured $1.9 million in state funding to install flashing beacons at 18 crosswalks. They urged Portland City Council to contribute its own funding.

A new city audit of Portland Streetcar says City Hall is breaking state law in how it allows the streetcar's private operator to control public money. City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade also says the city has never made a strategic plan to fit the streetcar into its larger transportation spending, since creating the streetcar system in 1995.